Nepal reconstruction efforts
February 8th, 2016
The forth annual Nepal Sanitation Studio is a week into the thick of it. Paul Pholeros and Sandra Meihubers had both built a steady momentum with the teams on the…
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The forth annual Nepal Sanitation Studio is a week into the thick of it. Paul Pholeros and Sandra Meihubers had both built a steady momentum with the teams on the…
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A group of design students from Griffith University, that worked in Nepal early in 2015, organised a night of food and friends to help support Nepal. Thanks to all involved…
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Nepal earthquake update from the ABC News service: Six months on, survivors face prospect of winter without shelter amid political upheaval, fuel shortage. HH and our partners and generous supporters…
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Thanks to the organisers of a lunch, for close to 100 guests on a farm west of Sydney, for helping support the rebuilding of earthquake damaged houses in Nepal. The…
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This is the second instalment of the story explaining how to improve the earthquake resistance of village houses in Nepal. To catch up on the first part of the story…
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Sanitation works have restarted at the Jalapadevi School after the earthquakes stopped the early work in May and then the wet season commenced making work difficult. The works continue thanks…
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Thanks to Reuters, Andrew MacAskill in Kathmandu and the SMH for the attached article outlining the slow progress of reconstruction in Nepal. In fairness to all involved, the monsoon season (ending…
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How to begin to reconstruct rural housing, destroyed or badly damaged in the earthquakes of April and May 2015, with Nepalese villagers, some of the poorest people in the world? Well…
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There are lessons learned, agendas, gender issues, principles, priorities and even creative moments but where is the action? There are some important points raised in this collection of papers and…
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Acclaimed Japanese architect Shigeru Ban has announced a 3-stage plan to build emergency shelters in Nepal following its series of devastating earthquakes earlier this year. READ THE STORY HERE
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A successful art auction in Newcastle last weekend, linked 3 years of architecture students that have worked on projects in Nepal, local artists, architects with a crowd of enthusiastic and…
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HH, in conjunction with our Rotary partners and the villages who previously have participated in the Village Health Improvement Program (Sanitation Program), have been working hard for the people who…
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